We visited Tyson's on an off-night for the Nighthawks, last night,
Friday August 24th, right after the big afternoon jump in heat and
humidity. We arrived at 8:58 PM and the lights on the pyramids came on
promptly at 9:00 PM. We watched until 9:35 PM, and saw lots of bats,
but no nighthawks. The birding highlight was flushing a couple of Rock
Doves from the parking structure.
Incidentally, if you like hiking up a few flights of stairs, we found
that the 5th level of the parking structure right across the street from
the pyramid-topped buildings allows you to view the airspace over the
pyramids without craning your neck up as much.
We'll try again another night.
- Steve Johnson
Fairfax, VA
Suzanne Richman wrote (on Aug. 23rd) :
Our houseguests and we enjoyed the lone nighthawk catching moths over the office building lights at Tysons (intersection of Boone and Gallows) at 9:15 last night. It disappeared in the clouds and would reappear over the lights several times.
Suzanne Richman (Bethesda, MD)
From: "Roger Mayhorn" <mayhorn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Birding Virginia" <va-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Va-bird] Nighthawks - Buchanan County
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 20:22:23 -0400
Hi All,
About 7:45 this evening I counted nine nighthawks winging their way southward. They were silhouetted against the sunset with towering, rumbling thunderheads just to the north. The birds were so far away that without 12 X binoculars I don't think I would have picked them out.
Roger Mayhorn
Compton Mt
Buchanan County
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